EVANSTON, Ill. – Students with Northwestern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine held a mock border checkpoint demonstration on campus recently that drew at least one harassment complaint from a Jewish student.

The SJP group pretended to be American and Israeli border patrol agents and carried out checkpoint demonstrations Tuesday on students posing as Palestinians or migrant workers. The scenarios were allegedly designed to highlight the injustices faced by both populations when they reach the American or Israeli border, The Daily Northwestern reports.

“Not only did we intend to show the suffering that occurs, but we also intended to show the intersections of the two struggles,” senior Istimal Khokher told the student news site. “Both peoples are subject to the same surveillance, the same racial profiling both here and in the state of Israel.”

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The goal was to increase pressure on university officials to divest from companies that are allegedly violating Palestinians’ human rights, including Elbit Systems and Hewlett-Packard Co., as called for in a student government resolution approved last quarter.

But one Jewish student said he was harassed and verbally assaulted by SJP demonstrators and filed a complaint with the university alleging race and religion bias. The student told The Daily he was recording the demonstration, told SJP actors he planned to send the video to a friend in the army, and that’s when things turned ugly.

“Another girl right after got in my face and said, ‘You’re sending it to killers, great,’” the student, who requested anonymity, told the news site.

SJP members also allegedly heckled him to take an informational pamphlet.

The anonymous student said he planned to send the video to his friend – a 21-year-old female medical student in the Israel Defense Force – to illustrate the situation at Northwestern, he said.

“People think of her as a killer,” the student told The Daily. “(She) just wants people to be safe and is no way a racist or hates Palestinians.”

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The student wrote in his complaint that Jewish Northwestern students are often labeled as a racist by some of their classmates despite the fact that many Jewish students support a two-state solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict.

The International Middle East Media Center and the New York Times recently highlighted the growing influence of SJP and Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions groups on college campuses across the nation in recent years.

“According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN), there are now Israel-related divestment groups at hundreds of major colleges. The coalitions have caught many longtime Jewish leaders off guard, particularly because they belonged to such progressive coalitions less than a generation ago,” according to the Media Center.

Those groups have attempted to pressure college and university officials into divesting from companies that do business with Israel, but virtually none have heeded their calls.

But the student debates leading up to votes on BDS proposals have been downright hostile to Jewish students.

“Discomfort is felt by every person of color on this campus. To those who say this divestment bill makes you uncomfortable, I say: Check your privilege,” Egyption-American senior Hagar Gomaa told the Times.

The BDS and SJP student groups have also gained support from minority students who feel like they can relate to Palestinians.

“We have seen the racism of people who get mad that so many empowered minorities are recognizing how their struggles are tied to the Palestinian struggle,” an unnamed female Chicana student told the Times. “Students have accused us of conflating many cases of oppression. To these students, I have a couple of words for you: What you call conflation, we call solidarity.”